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Watch a clip from "Dallas Buyers Club," the story of Texas electrician Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) and his battle with the medical establishment after being diagnosed HIV-positive. Also starring Jennifer Garner. (Photo/Video: Focus Features)

Matthew McConaughey continues to amaze. Last year he was dazzling as a nightclub owner (named Dallas) in "Magic Mike." Earlier this year he was zestful and graceful in "Mud." Now, in "Dallas Buyers Club," he's extravagantly funny and deeply affecting as Ron Woodroof, a dissolute, homophobic Texas electrician and sometime cowboy diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1985. That diagnosis, at that time, amounts to a death sentence. But Ron gives himself and other desperate sufferers a new lease on life by searching out alternative treatments—alternative to almost nothing, since the government and...